Stills

hope we'll never see such a scene in real.
clever installing. and shot. have u also tried a shot with more DOF?
 

My suspicion is that a greater DoF would pull the eye off to the clouds. So it would be interesting if you had a version like that.
 

Sorry, no other DOF shots of this. Something for me to keep in mind next time I go if the weather's right.
 

I come at this from two angles: the photographic and the message. I like your idea of juxtaposing the etched planes with the sky and clouds and think that it works in that way. Where I think that it is let down a bit as a photo is that it is a little bit tonally similar (unsurprisingly, given sky behind glass). There is also the ever-so-slightly mind-bending aspect of the tilt of the planes, as though they were all banking at once.

Then you come to the message. As someone who can recall the war movies of the '50s being shown in the school library on a Sunday evening this ties in very closely with that and is very unlike modern aerial warfare. So it is effective. My feeling is that it would be better with the planes out of focus and the clouds sharper: that would convey a more abstract image, moving the straight record (albeit well seen) into something more ghostly and compelling.
 

Looks like a constructed image or a Photoshop graphic. It will be difficult in years to come for people to remember that such images were once created in-camera.

I find this picture quite disturbing. And it is not any association with the subject matter (or least I think that it isn't). There is something relentless about the repetition. Something which says that, whatever you wish, these machines are not going to go away.

It conveys 'power' in several senses.
 

This reminds of war films where there are wave upon wave of planes going to war. It tells the story and the clouds, in the background, add a bit of realism. Personally, I would clone out the bits of plane at the top.
 

Whereas, for me, the bits of planes at the top are important elements of the picture. They imply more and more planes. They say that this isn't just a pretty pattern in a frame, but a part of a larger, and malevolent whole.
 

I keep coming back to this and can add nothing more than I really like it. Patterns please my eye as do two dimensional representations of perspective. I'm with auspicious on the bits. I did try and rotate anticlockwise 10 degrees or so to see what it looked like but your representation is at the right angle!